quotations

1.

I didn't really say everything I said.

- Yogi Berra

2.

Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.

- Alfred North Whitehead

3.

I never have found the perfect quote. At best I have been able to find a string of quotations which merely circle the ineffable idea I seek to express.

- Caldwell O'Keefe

4.

The next best thing to saying a good thing yourself, is to quote one.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

5.

It's a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

- Sir Winston Churchill

6.

When we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, and opening quotation is a symphony precluding on the chords those tones we are about to harmonize.

- Disraeli, Benjamin

7.

I might repeat to myself slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound - if I can remember any of the damn things.

- Dorothy Parker

8.

If you have any doubts that we live in a society controlled by men, try reading down the index of contributors to a volume of quotations, looking for women's names.

- Elaine Gill

9.

Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

10.

The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make.

- Dan Quayle

11.

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

- Samuel Johnson

12.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

- Sir Winston Churchill

13.

I quote others in order to better express myself.

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

14.

To be amused by what you read--that is the great spring of happy quotations.

- C. E. Montague

15.

I not only use all the brains I have but all I can borrow.

- Wilson, Woodrow T.

16.

People who like quotations love meaningless generalizations.

- Graham Greene

17.

An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.

- Edwin P. Whipple

18.

Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.

- Benjamin, Walter

19.

Next to being witty yourself, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.

- Bovee, Christian Nevell

20.

What's the use of a good quotation if you can't change it?

- Doctor Who